Jonathan Darlington

Conductor

British born Jonathan Darlington is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he conducted Samuel Barber's Vanessa at the beginning of the 2012/13 season. Recent engagements have included Tosca and Don Carlo at Vancouver Opera, where he is Music Director, Madame Butterfly at the Vienna State Opera and Don Giovanni at the Sydney Opera House. This season he will return to the Semperoper in Dresden for Die Zauberflöte and Handel's Orlando. A former Chief Conductor of the Duisburg Philharmonic, he has won many awards, including a 2011 ECHO Klassik, the Mercator-plakette and the city of Duisburg's Music Prize. He is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London. He began his career as a pianist and accompanist and, while working for Radio France collaborated with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez and Riccardo Muti, amongst others. Jonathan Darlington was Chief Conductor of the Opéra Bastille in Paris from 1990-1993.